Lockheed Looking at Extending the F-35’s Range, Weapons Suite
6/17/2019
​​––Brian Everstine
LE BOURGET, France—Lockheed Martin is looking at dramatically increasing the range of the F-35 by adding external fuel tanks while also planning to expand the suite of weapons the aircraft can carry.
Adding 600-gallon fuel tanks to the strike fighter would provide about a 40 percent increase of range, said Greg Ulmer, Lockheed vice president and general manager of the F-35 program, June 17 at the Paris Air Show.
“There’s several customers that are interested in extending the range of the airplane,†Ulmer said, without specifying which countries.
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